The advantages of PPV waste system over all other waste and waste tried disposal methods presently available is clear and numerous:

A. ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE:

The system is 100% environmentally safe because it is a completely enclosed system and does not release any toxic fumes into the atmosphere or produce any hazardous ashes. Regular incinerators produce massive amounts of toxic fumes and emissions and require expensive scrubbing systems, albeit with some success. Furthermore, the U.S. government and EPA had declared that ashes produced by incinerators are all considered hazardous waste and must be disposed of accordingly. The PPV system also does not produce or release any pollutant substance into the groundwater bed or surface water, nor does it produce bad odors as is common with sanitary landfills or hedgerow composting.

The Plasma arc waste system has only two products, a fuel laden gas (which can be used to make electricity or Methanol fuel) and an inert glassy “slag”; the U.S. EPA as well as Environmental agencies in France and Switzerland has tested and declared “slag” produced by Plasma arc pyrolysis environmentally safe and non-toxic (which can in turn be used for road beds, cement mix, brick making, etc), as done in Korea.

B. NO SORTING, PROCESSING OR DRYING OF WASTE:

There is no pre-sorting, separation or processing of waste is required or necessary prior to the waste treatment/recycling by a PPV unit. Consequently, there are no costs for equipment, personnel and materials that are associated with such preparation such as in the case of incinerators. Furthermore, Plasma arc heating can dispose of waste with high moisture content (up to 60%) such as waste from tropical countries during the rainy season, which would normally not burn in regular incinerators. Obviously, each PPV system has to be specially designed to accommodate the client’s waste stream composition. Altering the waste composition of the feed material would require changes in the feed handling system as well as the emission control system.

C. TREATMENT OF ALL WASTE STREAMS FROM ALL WASTE SOURCES:

With the exception of high-level nuclear waste, the waste system can process all types of wastes. This includes MSW, hospital wastes, industrial toxic chemical solvents, heavy metals, fly ash, incinerator ash, asbestos: fibers, sewage sludge, etc., and also low-level nuclear waste. This compares much more favorably than landfills, which can take only MSW.

All the different waste streams (except for radioactive waste) can be mixed with the MSW prior to being fed into the PPV reactors without the need for separation, sorting or processing.

D. COMPLETE RESOURCE RECOVERY:

As discussed above, the Plasma waste system provides two methods of resource recovery, either of which greatly enhances the financial viability of the system:

a. Energy can be extracted in two different ways from the organic hydrocarbon)

components of such wastes, which otherwise is un- recovered under the traditional

forms of waste disposal such as land filling or poorly recovered through incineration. Utilizing the PPV systems, the hydrocarbons/organic materials are pyrolyzed into a fuel laden gas which in turn can be converted into electric power utilizing a standard or combined cycle gas turbine; alternatively the fuel gas can be converted into methanol fueled for resale, utilizing a catalytic reactor. Both product, electric power and methanol fuel, are in high demand, worldwide!

b. Inorganic materials in the waste such as metals, rocks, dirt, vinyl, etc…are vitrified

by the Plasma PPV system into an inert glassy “slag: that can substitute for concrete

aggregates that otherwise are extracted by quarrying, which degrades the

environment. Other uses for the slag includes cement mix, brick making, road beds,

or as done by the Japanese, molded into tiles or garden furniture.

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